CO129-604-7 Expulsion of Undesirables Ordinance 1949 19-8-1949 - 16-12-1949 — Page 33

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A BILL

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An Ordinance to control the population of the Colony by providing for the expulsion of undesirables therefrom as occasion may require.

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof :

This Ordinance may be cited as the Expulsion of Short title. Undesirables Ordinance, 1949.

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2. In this Ordinance-

"accommodation camp" means a camp established by the Governor in Council under section 6;

"act" includes omission and a state or condition;

"authorized place" means the offices of any competent authority, any place of detention and any place which the Governor may by notification in the Gazette declare to be an authorized place for the purposes of this Ordinance;

"competent authority" means any justice of the peace and any other person whom the Governor may by notification in the Gazette declare to be a competent authority for the purposes of this Ordinance;

"enabling document" means a document which entitles the holder to obtain any valuable thing or to do any act or the possession of which renders lawful an act which would otherwise be unlawful or the failure to possess which, whether generally or in connection with a particular act, is unlawful or renders the doing of such act unlawful;

"individual" includes more than one person but does not include any public or charitable institution;

Inter- pretation.

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"place of detention" means any prison, any house Ordinance of detention under the Deportation of Aliens Ordinance, 1935, 1935. any place of detention under the Immigrants Control Ordinance, Ordinance 1949, and any accommodation camp for the accommodation of No. 4 of undesirables;

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